3/28/12
In order for a real estate broker to list a property for rent in the local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) it must have a...
3/27/12
One of the biggest mistakes Chicago renters make in their apartment search is looking only online and only on Craigslist. Take your search offline...
3/12/12
Chicago-based apartment rental website domu has written about “why you should ditch craigslist for your apartment search” and tallied more than 19,000 new apartment...
2/28/12
Over the weekend I noticed rental services advertising 2-bedroom, 2-bath lofts at Cobbler Square on Craigslist at prices ranging from $2,550 to $2,610. The...
2/27/12
Are you looking for an apartment in the Loop, West Loop or South Loop? Do you have a deep craving for painful, time-wasting, risk-fraught...
2/20/12
The Streeter, a 48-story, 481-unit apartment tower at 345 E Ohio St in Streeterville, was still in lease-up mode and at 56% occupancy when...
10/11/11
The ad copy at Craigslist for a Wicker Park for sale by owner condo contains these amusing assertions: Sun Filled Vintage Condo In Historical...
7/30/11
If you like having lots of roommates you might want to check out Stone Soup Ashland, a cooperative living arrangement in a 100-year old...
5/19/11
From a Craigslist roommates ad: when shit comes your way, you make doo doo. . ..so I have 2 rooms for rent that are...
5/10/11
A duplex-up at 1623 W Barry Ave is listed in the MLS at $2,500 a month. Coldwell Banker’s Jennifer Witt has the listing. domu...
4/8/11
Earlier today I spent about half an hour searching Craigslist apartment ads for apartment rental / finder / locator services –we call them bedbugs...
4/7/11
Anyone who’s searched for a Chicago apartment within the past year knows that the apartment locator servicees have trashed Craigslist with many thousands of...
3/18/11
Last Saturday we suggested that an apartment locator (a/k/a bedbug) by the name of Ginger Summers quit spamming Craigslist with thousands of repetitive ads....
3/14/11
Management companies, individual property owners and legitimate real estate brokers can quickly and easily clean up the mess that the apartment locator services that...
3/12/11
Between midnight yesterday and 8:42 this morning, an apartment rental bedbug by the name of Ginger Summers placed 962 housing for rent ads on...
3/8/11
Chicago’s apartment locators – we call them bedbugs – engage in wholesale bait-and-switch advertising on Craigslist. When you see enough rental service ads, you’d...
12/22/10
Back in August of 2009 we reported that apartment locator bedbugs (we used to call them maggots) were beginning to swarm the Roosevelt Collection...
11/18/10
Almost everyone who has searched for an apartment in Chicago recently knows that bedbugs – also known as apartment rental services and finders –...
11/3/10
Some of you may be familiar wth my long-standing practice of referring to apartment rental services as maggots. I’ve decided that reference is unfair...